This week the Virginia Beach City Public Schools will hold the annual College Night at Pavilion on Tuesday, October 28th from 5:30 to 8:00 PM. College Night is sponsored by the Office of Guidance Services and the high school guidance departments. The event is targeted to middle and high school students who are interested in pursuing postgraduate education once they have earned their high school diplomas. Students and their parents will have the opportunity to speak with college and university representatives concerning programs of studies, admissions requirements, costs, and student life. There is no admission charge to attend College Night, and Friends School students and their parents are invited to attend.

The Admissions Representatives from the College of Charleston, Methodist University, Seton Hall University, and Randolph College will be visiting with us this week in the US English classroom.

College of Charleston, Monday, 11:15 AM

Methodist University, Monday, 2:00 PM

Seton Hall College, Tuesday, 10:00 AM

Randolph College, Tuesday, 3:00 PM

Interested Juniors and Seniors are invited to attend the presentations—with permission from their instructors!

Preparations are underway for this year's Halloween Carnival which will take place on Thursday, October 30th. Volunteers are needed to provide baked goodies and supervise any of several activities. Please speak with Teacher Eileen if you can donate your time or your baking results, and she will connect you with the appropriate people! To pre-order tickets for activities at the Halloween Carnival, please download the flyer to the right , fill it out, and return it with the money for tickets to the office.

The Class of 2015 and the Class of 2016 will be creating and escorting tours to the Haunted Cottage during the Halloween Carnival. The following have signed up from the Class of 2015:

Setting up/Decorating: Sam, Sky, Thomas, and Walker

Performing: Courtney, Nicholas, Sam, Sarah, Thomas, and Zoie

Cleaning up: Lane, Thomas, and Walker

Advanced Composition: We will continue with our discussion of research methodologies and documenting sources this week, and we will be looking at Chapter 23: “Additional Research Strategies: Interviews, Questionnaires, Direct Observations.” Have you come up with a question yet for your I-Search project? Don't forget, I moved the due date for your cause and effect essay; it is due on Monday, October 27th.

Advanced Placement Calculus AB: Please be sure that you are where you need to be in this online class! You may want to use Khan Academy to reinforce any concepts you are having trouble with! If you have tests scheduled, you MUST be ready to take these on time on days when your class is scheduled with me!

Advanced Placement English Language and Composition: Please be sure that you are where you need to be in this online class as there is LOTS of reading to do!

Advanced Placement Psychology: Please be sure that you are where you need to be in this online class! If you have tests scheduled, you MUST be ready to take these on time on days when your class is scheduled with me!

Art History I: We got a little behind on our reading because of the Soccer and Volleyball tournaments last week, but we will easily catch up. This week we continue with Early Renaissance Art, reading several chapters:

Italian Painting 2: Tuscany in Mid-Century

Piero della Francesca: “The Flagellation”

Italian Sculpture 2: New Modes and Types

Italian Painting 3: Florence and Rome

Botticelli: “Primavera”

Renaissance Painting in North and Central Italy

Renaissance Painting in Venice

Then we will move on to the sixteenth century with a documentary and more reading:

Art of the Western World: Art History from Ancient Greece to Andy Warhol, Episode Four: “The High Renaissance”

The Sixteenth Century

Forward

Map

The High Renaissance 1: Florence and Rome

Leonardo da Vinci

Michaelangelo Buonarroti

Michaelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

We probably will NOT get through all of this, but we will give it our best shot!

Creative Writing: This week in Writing Down the Bones, we will be reading the following:

“One Plus One Equals a Mercedes Benz”

“Be an Animal”

“Make Statements and Answer Questions”

“The Action of a Sentence”

“Writing in Restaurants”

Reminder: this week I will be collecting and evaluating portfolios. You should have the following FINISHED [remember, that means TYPED and READY for PUBLICATION!] pieces for evaluation:

week 5: What's Your Obsession?

Week 6: Take a line or a rhyme and make it thine!

Week 7: What are YOUR dreams?

Week 8: Observation from the Bagel Bakery and Four Picture Response

Week 9: Story Starter piece

In addition, your prompt for this week is: Draw an imaginary constellation. Write a story such as ancient people might have told about it. This will be part of your writing portfolio for next time!

Film as Literature: For chapter 4: “Cinematography,” we will continue with Lawrence of Arabia. You should continue exploring this chapter through the take-home quiz which is due on or before Wednesday, November 5th. I will also review your final assignment for this class, A Recipe for a Film [due January 12th]. Don't forget that your film review is due on Wednesday, October 29th!

Fundamentals of Composition: This week we turn to Chapter 8: “Illustration: Making Yourself Clear.” The most difficult part of illustration is selecting an appropriate example, so we will spend some time on this as well as allowing time to peer edit theDescriptive Essay which is due on Thursday, October 30th.

Mystery Fiction: We will wrap up our reading of Shinjū with the final blog posts due by Monday at midnight. I moved the due date for the Postcards from Medieval Japan; they are now due on Tuesday, October 28th. This week we will begin a new book, The Salaryman's Wife. Remember, our class discussion takes place on our class blog and that each of you must post one original comment in response to my prompt by Thursday, and then each of you should respond to someone else's post by Saturday midnight if you are to earn full credit for this course requirement! Please be sure that you are posting to the correct blog entry and making your second post by Saturday at midnight for full credit! I AM deducting points for spelling and grammar mistakes, so be mindful of this as you post!

With Halloween coming up, here is a scary thought: the first quarter ends on Thursday, October 30th at the end of the day! Are your grades where they should be? If not, why not? If so, keep up the hard work!

This is a short week—we do not have school on Friday, and next Monday, November 4th, is a Teacher Work Day; there will be no classes for students.

Preparations are underway for this year's Open House / Grandparents' Day [October 24th] and Halloween Carnival [October 30th], and volunteers are needed to provide baked goodies or supervise any of several activities. Please speak with Teacher Eileen if you can donate your time or your baking results, and she will connect you with the appropriate people! To pre-order tickets for activities at the Halloween Carnival, please download the flyer to the right , fill it out, and return it with the money for tickets to the office.

The Class of 2015 and the Class of 2016 will be creating and escorting tours to the Haunted Cottage during the Halloween Carnival. The following have signed up from the Class of 2015:

Setting up/Decorating: Sam, Sky, Thomas, and Walker

Performing: Courtney, Nicholas, Sam, Sarah, Thomas, and Zoie

Cleaning up: Lane, Thomas, and Walker

The Admissions Representatives from Mary Baldwin College, Christopher Newport University, and Ferrum College will be visiting with us on Tuesday, October 21st in the US English classroom.

Mary Baldwin College: 10:10 AM

Christopher Newport University: 2:00 PM

Ferrum College: 2:45 PM

Interested Juniors and Seniors are invited to attend the presentations—with permission from their instructors!

The Class of 2015 continues to set records with the number of early admission offers they are receiving! Please offer your congratulations to Rikki who has been notified of her acceptance to Mary Baldwin College. She was offered a scholarship as well! Congratulations also go out to Lane who has been offered admission to Lynchburg College and Bridgewater College!

Advanced Composition: We will continue with our discussion of research methodologies and documenting sources—Chapters 21: “The Research Paper” and 22: “Documenting Sources.” Hopefully you are beginning to refine your thoughts into a question for your I-Search project! I have extended the due date for the Cause and Effect paper; your cause and effect essay is now due on Monday, October 27th.

Advanced Placement Calculus AB: Please be sure that you are where you need to be in this online class! You may want to use Khan Academy to reinforce any concepts you are having trouble with! If you have tests scheduled, you MUST be ready to take these on time on days when your class is scheduled with me!

Advanced Placement English Language and Composition: Please be sure that you are where you need to be in this online class as there is LOTS of reading to do!

Advanced Placement Psychology: Please be sure that you are where you need to be in this online class! If you have tests scheduled, you MUST be ready to take these on time on days when your class is scheduled with me!

Art History I: This week we continue with Early Renaissance Art, reading quite a few chapters:

Italian Renaissance Sculpture 1

Donatello

Masaccio: “The Holy Trinity”

Italian Renaissance Painting 1

Fra Angelico: “The San Marco Annunciation”

Italian Painting 2: Tuscany in Mid-Century

Piero della Francesca: “The Flagellation”

Italian Sculpture 2: New Modes and Types

Italian Painting 3: Florence and Rome

Botticelli: “Primavera”

Renaissance Painting in North and Central Italy

Renaissance Painting in Venice

We are finally getting to some works of art with which you may be familiar!

Creative Writing: This week in Writing Down the Bones, we will be reading the following:

“The Ordinary and the Extraordinary”

“Talk is the Exercise Ground”

“Writing is a Communal Act”

“Be Specific”

Our prompt for the week will be based on a story starter. I wonder how this will work with such a small class... Next week I will be collecting and evaluating portfolios. You should have the following pieces FINISHED [remember, that means TYPED and READY for PUBLICATION!] for evaluation:

week 5: What's Your Obsession?

Week 6: Take a line or a rhyme and make it thine!

Week 7: What are YOUR dreams?

Week 8: Observation from the Bagel Bakery and Four Picture Response

Week 9: Story Starter piece

Film as Literature: For chapter 4: “Cinematography,” we will continue with Doctor Zhivago, followed by Lawrence of Arabia. You should continue exploring this chapter through the take-home quiz which is due on or before Wednesday, November 5th. I will also review your final assignment for this class, A Recipe for a Film [due January 12th]. Don't forget that your film review is due on Wednesday, October 29th!

Fundamentals of Composition: This week we turn to Chapter 7: “Process Analysis—Explaining How.” After a discussion concerning the two types of process papers, one for readers who will perform the process and one for readers seeking to understand a process, we will read two examples in our textbook:

“Fast Track to Perfection”

“Waves of Destruction”

During Writing Workshop, you will have time to work on your Descriptive Essay which is due on Thursday, October 30th.

Mystery Fiction: We will finish up Shinjū, with the Postcards from Medieval Japan due on Friday, October 24th. Remember, our class discussion takes place on our class blog and that each of you must post one original comment in response to my prompt by Thursday, and then each of you should respond to someone else's post by Saturday midnight if you are to earn full credit for this course requirement! Please be sure that you are posting to the correct blog entry and making your second post by Saturday at midnight for full credit! I AM deducting points for spelling and grammar mistakes, so be mindful of this as you post! We will move to modern Japan for our next book, The Salaryman's Wife.